Environmental Law Alert Blog
Through our Environmental Law Alert blog, West Coast keeps you up to date on the latest developments and issues in environmental law. This includes:
- proposed changes to the law that will weaken, or strengthen, environmental protection;
- stories and situations where existing environmental laws are failing to protect the environment; and
- emerging legal strategies that could be used to protect our environment.
If you have an environmental story that we should hear about, please e-mail Andrew Gage. We welcome your comments on any of the posts to this blog – but please keep in mind our policies on comments.
Salish Sea. Photo credit: Flickr user fletcherjcm
The provincial government’s current “Area Based Forest Tenure Consultation”, which ends on May 30, 2014 is about large-scale logging interests and how
New regulations under the Fisheries Act allow Canada’s Fisheries and Environment Ministers to give blanket authorization to cause pollution in fish habitat in a range of circumstances, including pollution from fish farm companies seeking to control “pests” or invasive species. These regulations are the latest in a series of changes t
The current session of the BC Legislature has kept us quite busy. While we’ve had occasion to discuss several bills in our Environmental Law Alert, we haven’t even mentioned a host of others that we are following with interest. This session, the BC government has introduced a whole series of amendments and new statutes with environme
Following hot on the heels of the controversial Park Amendment Act (Bill 4), the BC government has introduced another bill that would open up some of the province’s most publicly valuable lands – in this case, its farmlands – to industrial development.
Last month, the federal government rejected Taseko Mines’proposal to build the controversial New Prosperity Project. For a second time. But Taseko is going to court arguing that the environmental ass
[Update 30 May 2014 - The BC government passed Bill 24 yesterday (May 29th), after forcing closure. Thank you so much to everyone who wrote - either using our action form or on your own - to tell the government that this Bill did not protect agricultural land. We have removed the Action form at the end of this post. For
Click here to send a letter to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Prime Minister Stephen Harp
Update, 29 July 2014: The Regulations Establishing Conditions for Making Regulations Under Subsection 36(5.2) of the Fisheries Act were brought into force and published in April, 2014.
The BC Government introduced its long-promised Water Sustainability Act in the BC Legislature on Tuesday. As we said when the gover